WHEN men get fat, it is perfectly on limits to mock them. Not women. Just men. If you do it to a woman, you’re spiteful and pressuring women to be a certain shape. If a man puts weight on, you can all cheerily singing “who ate all the pies?!” at them and chuckle away while they go home and cry themselves to sleep.

JOSEPH Mkanada has grown breasts as a result of his AIDS medication. He and other men were being given anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs.

Says Mr Mkanda from his home in Mtwara, Tanzania:

“I feel very much ashamed to go out of my house, because I have developed breasts like a woman. I fear that other people would laugh at me.

“I went to one of the medical doctors in my village, who told me that such signs were normal for people suffering from AIDS who have been taking the drugs for a long time. At the moment, I don’t know what to do or where to go.”